What are you gaming? Page 138

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 2 2013, 2:02 PM BST

I disagree with everything else Godot said.

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I think we've established you're playing a different game. In the capture above I taxied the plane out of the hanger and caught the wing on one of the poles beside the runway. Plane wouldn't move. Got out of the plane and the game said: 'Get back into the plane.' Had to blow myself up with a grenade in the end.

This shit happens all the time. I fail every other mission first attempt because of a car getting stuck or a missed instruction. They haven't done any blind testing on this game at all. The other night I played for almost an hour and got nothing done. Kept respawning at Sandy Shores hospital and dying before I got into town. In the end I took a taxi because I couldn't stand it.

Maybe I'm just playing it better. I've played upwards of 70 hours (apparently!) and I can count on my fingers the number of times I've got into a jam I can't get out of.

Have you tried this workaround? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ4ZVsRSQQA

I'm on Team Kevin in regards to the cut scenes and script, they're one of my favourite bits and I think really tightly written.

It is buggy as hell though, but not enough to ruin the experience. I can certainly make allowances because of how huge the game is.

The most frustrating thing is my own ineptitude- I still haven't done one of the bloody aeroplane drop missions. The last time was because I forgot to put my wheels down and I blew up upon landing, and previously it's been clipping my damn wings on telegraph poles and lamp posts. I think we've tried it about 10 times between us and keep rage quitting.

Actually, my main grumble is how long it takes the character to stand the up after they've fallen over or been hit by a car. It feels like I'm forever screaming "GET THE FUCK UP TREVOR" and similar.

Finally got my copy, can hopefully have a bash Friday.

We don't need to know about your masterbatory habbits, Nil.

I tried Online this afternoon at lunch. First attempt at creating a character locked up the console, requiring a reboot. I succeeded creating my Foxy Brown second time around but the game failed to connect to the Rockstar servers and bounced me back into the single player game. Third attempt didn't produce any errors, just seemed to be endlessly processing something or other.

Quote: Natalie Of Wicks @ October 2 2013, 4:20 PM BST

We don't need to know about your masterbatory habbits, Nil.

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Managed to get into Online at about 8pm last night. Next thing I knew it was 230am. It's definitely fun.

Weird though. Your character is completely mute, as are all the other player characters, for obvious reasons. It's odd going on a mission with other people.

It's also quite jarring going from the three regular characters to a new one who has shitty skills and a shitty car.

And anyone who gets confused by instructions popping up on screen is going to HATE the first few hours. If you couldn't manage to steer your car and read at the same time, imagine what it's going to be like when you have an idiot troll lurking at your spawn point with a shotgun. There's a LOT of new stuff to figure out.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 3 2013, 10:42 AM BST

imagine what it's going to be like when you have an idiot troll lurking at your spawn point with a shotgun.

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Ugh, I hate that.

Quote: Nil Putters @ October 3 2013, 10:49 AM BST

Ugh, I hate that.

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Luckily, I saw hardly any of that.

There was one time that I went for a piss and when I came back I was respawning having apparently been wasted. I had barely figured out what happened when a sports car belonging to the same troll flattened me.

But that only happened once in six hours.

Most of the time, you're in instanced missions and nobody apart from the people in your instance can f**k with you.

There's also a way to go into pacifist mode in free roam, so you're invulnerable to other players but cannot draw your weapon.

AND, the game flags people as "Good Sports" and "Bad Sports". Apparently Bad Sports will eventually only be able to play with other Bad Sports.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 2 2013, 2:44 PM BST

Maybe I'm just playing it better.

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I've got the gold star achievement in gay tony - 100% in all missions. I know how to play, but I find it hard to pick up the missions without pricking about because the main storyline is so boring.

When you spawn as Trevor on the outskirts of the map in a shitty truck it's a pain to just quietly drive back into town without trying to evade a four star notoriety and you will keeping dying for some utterly stupid reason like your car is trapped behind a twig or you've driven into a steel hedge that they always seem to have in game worlds.

Quote: Natalie Of Wicks @ October 2 2013, 3:05 PM BST

I'm on Team Kevin in regards to the cut scenes and script, they're one of my favourite bits and I think really tightly written.

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The scenes between Franklin and Lamarr are well written and some of Trevor's dialogue is good but the story line with Michael is pretty dreadful. He is utterly uninteresting and is simply poorly put together in graphic terms. As I said earlier, his face doesn't even look human at times - he looks a gen behind Trevor.

Compare Michael's storyline with that of Niko from GTA4 - someone who you could actually care about as a person - or Dwayne, or even Tony Prince, who was a cliché but at least was likeable.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ October 3 2013, 10:42 AM BST

And anyone who gets confused by instructions popping up on screen is going to HATE the first few hours. If you couldn't manage to steer your car and read at the same time, imagine what it's going to be like when you have an idiot troll lurking at your spawn point with a shotgun. There's a LOT of new stuff to figure out.

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I love the way that you like to try to characterise me as some old fart. I don't get 'confused' by instructions popping up on a screen, I'm not in a home, I just don't like failing a mission on first attempt because they didn't prototype the UI properly.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 3 2013, 11:59 AM BST

I've got the gold star achievement in gay tony - 100% in all missions.

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Impressive. I bet that took a while.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 3 2013, 11:59 AM BST

he looks a gen behind Trevor.

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I get what you're saying here, but I think that Franklin's facial animation/artwork is about the level as Michael's. It's only now we've got Frank done up like the boxing coach from The Wire that his model doesn't look a bit silly and clunky.

Michael is my favourite character to play, though. Trevor is funny but really I'm too uncomfortable playing him, and Franklin has good missions but is is quite dull as characters go.

The beauty of it is that you can switch between characters as the mood takes you. I would only ever consider doing yoga as Michael, because he's having that kind of mid-life crisis. I would only ever go on a kill-crazy rampage as Trevor, because he's a nutter. I would only ever do sports as Franklin, because I'm a racist.